The Man Farthest Down: A Record of Observation and Study in Europe

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Transaction Publishers, 1912 - History - 390 pages
 

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Contents

Hunting the Man Farthest Down
3
The Man at the Bottom in London
21
From Petticoat Lane to Skibo Castle
37
First Impression of Life and Labour on the Continent
53
Politics and Races
70
Strikes and Farm Labour in Italy and Hungary
86
Naples and the Land of the Emigrant
105
The Labourer and the Land in Sicily
124
Fiume Budapest and the Immigrant
217
Cracow and the Polish Jew
240
A Polish Village in the Mountains
264
A Russian Border Village
276
The Women Who Work in Europe
296
The Organization of Country Life in Denmark
319
Reconstructing the Life of the Labourer in London
341
John Burns and the Man Farthest Down in London
360

Women and the Wine Harvest in Sicily
148
The Church the People and the Mafia
166
Child Labour and the Sulphur Mines
192
The Future of the Man Farthest Down
377
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